I've got a very rough copy of the vB compatible active topics done.

The file is on

http://www.gandmasti.net/forum/active.txt

The result is on

http://www.gandmasti.net/index2.shtml
or
http://www.gandmasti.net/forum/active.php

Mind you my board is a humor board and there might be offensive jokes on the active list, consider yourself warned!

This copy has several things I want to add, in the following priorities....

a) Template support
b) User defined number of topics / topics since last logon
c) RDF support (to allow others to take the list from your site dynamically)
d) WML support (to allow mobile phone users to get their humor fix via phones... also to allow me to admin / delete the forums via a mobile phone)
e) Clean up of the code / comments
f) Offline (low overhead) generation via cron

Good job shri!!

When they release 1.1.1 we gonna buy and I'll cut it and start working on some other stuff for it :)

great work :)

What woudl it take to configure this so you can select the most recent posts from a) a particular forum and b) a particular category of forums or c) some combination of both?

thanks

Huss,

Not a lot. Just play with the select statements.

On the list of things to do.

However, my priority right now is to get the software to look and work like UBB to see if its worth upgrading a few more licenses to vB and putting it into production.

Shri

IN that list of things you want to acommplish...any eta?

:)

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[Edited by wandrer on 05-05-2000 at 09:46 AM]

http://www.glcomputers.com/Wandrer/P...ive-Topic2.zip

Now you can change the number of topics to display, the length of the message, and whether it is displayed to the browser or written to a user-defined file on the website.

http://www.someweb.com/forum/Active....h=175&posts=15

will run the active-topics displaying 15 of the latest posts and a message length of 175 characters.

http://www.someweb.com/forum/Active....osts=20&file=1

will run the active-topics displaying 20 of the latest posts and a message length of 250 characters writing the information to a user-defined file on the website.

The user-defined file is based on a template, so it could work with RDF, HTML, CVS, TXT, or any other format you wish it to be.

Also, because you can have it output to a file, you can run it via cron from the command line to update the file every x minutes/hours/days.

Email me if you have questions (wandrer@glcomputers.com)

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Just changed it based on a comment above. You can now select the forums for it to display also:

http://www.someweb.com/forum/Active....sts=15&forum=2

will only display topics from forum #2.

http://www.glcomputers.com/Wandrer/P...e-Topic2-5.zip for the changes with forum selection...

[Edited by wandrer on 05-05-2000 at 10:05 AM]

Wanderer, NICE! Thanks :)

thanks for the compliment... and thanks for the first version of the software which you wrote...

[Edited by wandrer on 05-05-2000 at 12:34 PM]